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B1. Methodology and Scientific Reasoning
B2. Ethical Issues in the Philosophy of Science
B3. Historical Aspects in the Philosophy of Science
C1. Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Logic, Mathematics and Computer Science
C3. Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Biology
C4. Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Chemistry
C5. Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Physics
C6. Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Medicine
C7. Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Environmental Sciences
C8. Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Economics and Social Sciences
D. Methodological and Philosophical Issues in Technology
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Constructing a proof-tree: An investigation on composition of derivations
Michael Arndt, Laura Tesconi
Approximating Beppo Levi’s “principio di approssimazione”
Riccardo Bruni, Peter Schuster
On constructive set theories with operations and related problems
Andrea Cantini, Laura Crosilla
Lorenzen games for full intuitionistic linear logic
Valeria de Paiva
Copies of classical logic in intuitionistic logic
Jaime Gaspar
Properties of universes in realizability models for intuitionistic set theory and its corollaries
Valery Khakhanian
On Kripke frames and arithmetical interpretations for QGL
Taishi Kurahashi
Two-level version of sequential logic: completeness and consistency aspects
Alexander Kuzichev, Karolina Kuzicheva
A generalization of Dugundji theorem
Newton Marques Peron
Dynamic justification logic
Thomas Studer
On Piaget-like monoids: Monoids for logics
Sheila R. M. Veloso, Paulo A. S. Veloso, Paula M. Veloso
Semantics for Tarskian consequence operations
Christian Wallmann
An axiomatization of Paul Weingartner’s 6-valued deontic logic and a result concerning its possible extensions
Albert J. J. Anglberger
Localising logical rules in the sequent calculus
Michael Arndt
Skeptical doubt, the common doubt and the contextualism of Keith De Rose
Julio M. Arriaga Romero
Meinong and Husserl on existence
Giuliano Bacigalupo
Homotopies in classical and paraconsistent modal logics
Can Baskent
The consistency of Peano arithmetic: Why bother?
Diderik Batens
The bird of the hybrid type theory
Patrick Blackburn, Maria Manzano, Carlos Areces, Antonia Huertas
Peano and Gödel
Paola Cantù
Which constructive negation for falsificationism?
Roberto Ciuni, Andreas Pietz
Modal dialogical logic, validity and universal satisfiability
Nicolas Clerbout
Neighborhood semantics for dynamic epistemic logics
Lorenz Demey
An elementary model theoretic perspective in mathematics education
Viviane Durand-Guerrier
Higher-order belief change in a branching-time setting
Virginie Fiutek, Sujata Ghosh, Sonja Smets
Cooperation in the prisoner’s dilemma
Karine Fradet
Representation of Bolzano’s content nferences with singular terms in the language of predicate logic
Boris I. Fyodorov
Three complications in modelling abduction in science
Tjerk Gauderis
Representing a finite mind
Sven Ove Hansson
A statistical model of vagueness based on supervaluationism
Tetsuji Iseda
Why blame Aristotle? Rational coherence and the principle of contradiction
John T. Kearns
The ways of modality: On the notion of higher-order modality
Neil Kennedy
Information change and first-order dynamic logic
Barteld Kooi
Lost in translation: The logic of paradox
Allard Tamminga, Barteld Kooi
Classical model existence and pure implicational logic
Jui-Lin Lee
Is the sensitive principle or the safety principle enough?
Hsin-Mei Lin
La logique des concepts paraconsistents
Iancu Lucica
Explication as specific method of philosophical research
Viacheslav Lyashov
On some natural four-valued generalizations of weak Kleene logic
José Martínez Fernández, Rafael Beneyto Torres
Truth, dependence and supervaluation
Toby Meadows
Adaptive deontic logics for various types of normative conicts
Joke Meheus
On the variable-sharing property and the axiom mingle 1
José M. Méndez, Gemma Robles, Francisco Salto
Truth as a semantic switch
Chienkuo Mi
A partial modal semantics for the Adams logic of indicative conditionals
Alberto Marió Mura
The paradoxical context of logical information: The core of the paradoxical context of information and inference
Alexandru-V. Muresan
Modal analysis of strict implication
Ionel Narita
Illocutionnary logic and social interaction: Speech acts and the conversational record
Michel Paquette
Strong antirealism, logical rules and structural rules
Fabrice Pataut
The many dimensions of contextualism in epistemology
Gillman Payette, Masashi Kasaki
On what grounds should we build deontic logic?
Clayton Peterson
Constructive semantics and classical logic
Thomas Piecha, Wagner de Campos Sanz
In the vicinity of Sette logic 1
Vladimir Popov, Vasilyi Shangin
Non-Fregean logic and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early insight into application of logic
Mateusz Marek Radzki
Proof-theoretic validity
Stephen Read
The basic constructive logic for weak consistency in the ternary semantics with designated points 1
Gemma Robles
Translation invariance as a criterion of likeness. An analysis of hybrid versimilitude theories
Aleksandra Samonek
The BHK interpretation and extensions of NJ
Wagner de Campos Sanz, Thomas Piecha
Logic as consequence in opposition
Fabien Schang
The errors of Bertrand Russell
Ioan Scheau
Logic as an art and logic as a science: Is it only precedents or tradition?
Konstantin Skripnik
Quine’s other way out
Hartley Slater
Semantic foundations for the logic of assent
Werner Stelzner
An adaptive approach to detachment in conditional logics of normality
Christian Straßer
A quantitative logic of normality
Corina Strößner
Some calculus of change with S4-necessity
Kordula Swietorzecka, Johannes Czermak
Undecidability of some mereotopological structures
Hsing-Chien Tsai
The swamping problem
Wen-Yu Tsai
The Ramsey test and Chellas-Segerberg semantics
Matthias Unterhuber
Busting a myth about Lesniewski and definitions
Rafal Urbaniak, Severi K. Hämäri
Adaptive belief contraction
Frederik Van De Putte
Towards non-monotonic mathematics: Adaptive logic theories as a pragmatic foundation for mathematics
Peter Verdée
For a Popperian theory of conditionals
Mathieu Vidal
Which core logic?
Joseph Vidal-Rosset
Against classical dialetheism
Wen-Fang Wang
Decidable many-valued logic for the application in empirical sciences
Paul Weingartner
Lorenzen dialogues and sequent calculus: Equivalence, correspondence, and cut
Bartosz Wieckowski
Material implication v. mutually inverse implication
Xunwei Zhou
Symposium: Hyperintension, intension, extension
Organizers: Marie Duži, Bjørn Jespersen, Pavel Materna
Symposium: The meaning of axioms: From mathematics to logic
Organizers: Alberto Naibo, Mattia Petrolo, Thomas Seiller
Symposium: New directions in dialogical logics
Organizer: Shahid Rahman, Pierre Cardascia
Symposium: Proof theory, meaning and paradoxes
Organizer: Luca Tranchini
Cut-elimination, substitution and normalisation
Roy Dyckhoff
Logical properties of finite arithmetics
Michał Krynicki, Jerzy Tomasik, Konrad Zdanowski 1
Modal types and their procedural semantics for contextual computing
Giuseppe Primiero
Gödel’s incompleteness phenomenon from computational viewpoint
Saeed Salehi
Computing the infinite
Sam Sanders
Computability theory in relation-algebraic form
Tor Sandqvist
Symposium: Proof systems at the test of computer science: Foundational and applicational encounters (symposium website)
Organizers: Francesca Poggiolesi, Giuseppe Primiero
Extended cognition meets epistemology
Fred Adams
A structuralist theory of belief revision
Holger Andreas
How can a purely cognitive philosophy of science deal with social biases? Embodied, situated and distributed cognition to the rescue!
Saray Ayala
Cartography revisited: A key to understanding scientific knowledge
Oded Balaban
What makes an object ‘epistemic’? Criteria of relevance for scientific collections and exhibitions
Philipp Balsiger, Marianne Richter
What objective probability could be
Thomas Benda
A similarity based model of scientific concept formation
Dragos Bigu
Why do we need Phenomena? What we can learn from the Engineering Sciences
Mieke Boon
Theories of axonal transport in the cell: Empirical evidence against scientific realism
Tobias Breidenmoser
A new logic for new technology
Joseph E. Brenner
Theory success: Some evaluative clues
Maria Caamano
Mechanistic and neo-mechanistic accounts of causation: How Salmon already got (much of) it right
Raffaella Campaner
Laws of nature and induction
Eduardo Castro
The Epistemic Structural Realist Program. Some interference
Angelo Cei
Pluralistic ontologies for scientific realism
Anjan Chakravartty
Neither between nor within: Selfhood and otherness in epistemology
Simone Cheli
A theoretical analogy: How is Darwin’s theory of natural selection analogous to Malthus’ theory of population
Ruey-Lin Chen
Dispositions, conditionals, and ordinary conditions
Kai-Yuan Cheng
Higher- and lower-level phenomena: A nonhierarchical approach to fundamental properties
Anna Ciaunica
Accumulation of theory parts and meaning variance
Alberto Cordero
What do we learn from case studies?
Sandrine Darsel
On the ontology of linguistic frameworks: Toward a comprehensive version of empiricism
Majid Davoody Beni
A Bayesian model of no alternative arguments
Richard Dawid
Idealization, scientific modeling and simulations: A new analysis of idealization as a common framework for the study of models and simulations
Xavier de Donato Rodríguez
Scientist vs. nature—priors, strategies and discovery
Frederick Eberhardt
Expanding our grasp: Can causal knowledge save realism from Stanford’s new induction?
Matthias Egg
The stabilizing role of material structure in scientific practice
Anna Estany
How to defend scientific realism against the PMI
Ludwig Fahrbach
Identity of scientific concepts and theoretical dependence
José L. Falguera
A problem for semantic definitions of analyticity
Christian J. Feldbacher
On emergence and causation
Erez Firt
Narrative explanations
Gary Fuller
Reasoning without language or logic
Ivan Gazeau
Determining causal relevancies at event-level
Alexander Gebharter
How international comparisons transform social reality
Anne-Sophie Godfroy
The logic of surprise: Puzzle, quantum games and information
Samir Gorsky
The principal principle, and theories of chance: An account of primitive conditional chance
Josh Haddock
Reasons for relativism: Feyerabend on early Greek thought
Helmut Heit
Metaphors, the solar system and scientific research
Rosa María Herrera
The ultimate argument against convergent realism and structural realism: The impasse objection
Paul Hoyningen-Huene
Theory vs. interpretation: From a methodological point of view
Anna Ijjas
Collective science: The loss of scientific understanding?
Cyrille Imbert
Is the relativized a priori incompatible with scientific realism?
Milena Ivanova
Theory-talk, meta-theory-talk and metaphysical-talk: Intricacies and pertinence of three levels of discourse in the scientific realism- debate
Sreekumar Jayadevan
The commercialization of research—A threat to the objectivity of science?
Saana Jukola
From foundation to function: Rethinking the role of data in science
Molly Kao
Idealization and inference: How false models explain
Ashley Graham Kennedy
A generalization of the Condorcet jury theorem
Berna Kilinc
Reason, emotion, and the context distinction
Jeff Kochan
One law, 23 derivations: On the plurality of explanations of Planck’s law
Meinard Kuhlmann
Refined truth approximation by refined belief base revision
Theo A.F. Kuipers
From philosophy of science to theories of knowledge systems
Vladimir Kuznetsov, Wolfgang Balzer
How to talk with a skeptic?
Erwan Lamy
A turn in computational modeling. The case of quantum chemistry
Johannes Lenhard
Two impossibility results about revision of conditional probability
François Lepage, Charles Morgan
Pluralism and objectivity: On Longino’s and Kitcher’s approaches
Anna Leuschner
Why normal distributions are normal
Aidan Lyon
Externalism, internalism and the conception of the socio-cognitive potentialism
Myhailo Marchuk
Efficient experimentation
Conor Mayo-Wilson
Difference-making and ontological explanation
David McElhoes
The contemporary notion of chance and Salmon’s interactive fork model. An attempt to describe chance by means of some causal criterion
Alessandra Melas
Science-based metaphysics: On some recent anti-metaphysical claims
Matteo Morganti
Pseudo-scientific explanation and scientific explanation
Kunihisa Morita
The role of philosophy of science in the understanding of “post-academic” science
Verusca Moss Simões dos Reis
On an inconsistency in Constructive Empiricism
F. A. Muller
The aim of science—knowledge or wisdom
Peeter Müürsepp
Interrogative model of inquiry as a logic of experiment
Arto Mutanen
Scientific progress as increase of expressibility, accuracy and coherence
Yasuo Nakayama
Rethinking belief revision by truthlikeness
Ilkka Niiniluoto
Conditioning and unfaithfulness
Erik P. Nyberg, Kevin B. Korb
The scientific realism debate from the epistemological viewpoint —Why not consult the theories of knowledge ?—
Yukinori Onishi
Scientific representation: Uses and interpretation of models
Inmaculada Perdomo Reyes
Accuracy, chance, and the Principal Principle
Richard Pettigrew
The limits of probabilism
Wolfgang Pietsch
Scientific representation, denotation, and explanatory power
Demetris Portides
Visual representation in the light of methodological demands—A critical review of symbol theoretic attempts to operationalize scientific visualization
Marianne Richter, Philipp Balsiger
Seven fundamental versions of philosophy of science
László Ropolyi
Metaphysical aspects of postpositivism
Roman Roshkulets
Re-positioning realism
Emma Ruttkamp
Scientific realism and inferentially veridical representations
Juha Saatsi
Both billiard ball and butterfly?
Uwe Scheffler, Max Urchs
Causal inference, mechanisms and the Semmelweis case
Raphael Scholl
Bayesian confirmation of creationism? On the problem of genuine confirmation
Gerhard Schurz
From malfunction to mechanism
Bertold Schweitzer
Disambiguating the notion of pursuit worthiness
Dunja Šešelja
Screening-off (aka the Markov property) and causal incompleteness—a no-go theorem
Elliott Sober, Mike Steel
Proofs as spatio-temporal processes
Petros Stefaneas, Ioannis M. Vandoulakis
Towards a non-adaptationist approach to mathematics
Fabio Sterpetti
Deduction, induction and abduction according to Charles S. Peirce: Necessity, probability, discovery
Cassiano Terra Rodrigues
Prioritized adaptive logics and the epistemology of thought experiments in physics
Rafal Urbaniak
Simplicity as a guide to falsity?
Ioannis Votsis
Veritistic social epistemology. A reliable proposal?
Zenaida Yanes Abreu
The futility of prescribing what scientists should do: Supplementing van Fraassen’s empirical stance with scientific practices
Jeu-Jenq Yuann
Confirmation, verisimilitude, and acceptance
Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, Ana M. Rodríguez
Conservatism in scientific research: A new problem
Kevin J.S. Zollman, Erich Kummerfeld
Symposium: The interpretation and scope of models of complex systems
Organizer: Christopher Pincock
Symposium: Integrity and diversity of traditions and trends in today’s philosophy of science
Organizer: Andrei Rodin
Symposium: Calibration in scientific practice
Organizer: Léna Soler
On rationality, irrationality and counterrationality in dynamics of knowledge
Katarzyna Gan-Krzywoszynska, Piotr Lesniewski
Scientific methods and strategies of research: A plurality of paths to the objectives of science
Kelly Ichitani Koide
Epistemethics: Lessons from an ethnographic study of global health research ethics concerning the articulation between research and practice
Nicolas Lechopier
Scientific credibility in the public exemplifying climatology: Why it is important, how it is challenged
Anna Leuschner
Science, episteme and mathematical ethics (A law of contraposition of episteme in algebra of formal ethics)
Vladimir Lobovikov
Where the opposition to value-free science should be revised
Masahiro Matsuo
Philosophy of science and ethical issues —from a Warsaw perspective
Witold Strawinski
Compounding ratios, theories of ratio and geometry in theoretical music in the 16th century
Oscar Joao Abdounur
Neurath on pictures, language and international communication
Basak Aray
Between Kantianism and empiricism: Otto Hölder’s philosophy of geometry
Francesca Biagioli
Carnap’s vision or: How we can learn from the past and enlighten the future of the philosophy of science
Matteo Collodel
Mathematics and the purity of methods: Some historical considerations
Davide Crippa
Symmetry and the enigma of space and time. Reflections on the origin of gauge theory
Silvia De Bianchi
Quality and practice in mathematics from Hilbert to Grothendieck
Jean-Pierre Ferrier
Theory underdetermination: The history of science perspective
Alexander Fursov
Two traditions of conventionalism
Adam Grobler
Kant, Fichte and algebraic operations: Philosophy of algebra according to Jules Vuillemin
Masaki Harada
Gödel and Leibniz on concepts and relations
Shinji Ikeda
Changes in the perception of time in Victorian scientific theories: Lyell, Darwin and Maxwell
Simcha Kojman-Rozen
The unimportance of Quine’s Two Dogmas of Empiricism
Artur Koterski
A source of Feyerabend’s decision-based epistemology: Hugo Dingler’s voluntarism
Daniel B. Kuby
Constructing natural historical facts: Baconian methodology in Newton’s first paper on light and colors
Dana Jalobeanu
Evolution as metaphor for scientific progress
Hennie Lotter
With Bokovic against Kant: Ivan Krstitelj Horvath on space and time
Ivica Martinovic
Cartesian forces in a soulless physics
Zuraya Monroy-Nasr
Historical epistemology Notes on Archimedes, Torricelli and Sadi Carnot
Raffaele Pisano
Kantian aspects of Poincaré’s epistemological thoughts on XIXth century physics
Joao Principe
A study of analogical reasoning based on William Harvey’s problems and analogies
Dagmar Provijn
History of science and language criticism: A cross-referenced reading of Ernst Mach and Fritz Mauthner
Pascale Roure
Semantics in type theory
Georg Schiemer
Poincare’s two types of conventionalism
David J. Stump
Ibn al-Haytham’s ‘al-Shukuk’ or the art of controversy: How the eleventh century Arabic scientist’s arguments changed astronomy forever
Hassan Tahiri
Some semantic considerations for the conceptual transition from Euclidean to non-Euclidean geometry
Janos Tanacs
On A. A. Markov’s attitude towards Brouwer’s intuitionism
Ioannis M. Vandoulakis
Beyond Poincaré and Einstein: A. A. Robb’s theory of space and time
Scott Walter
Methodological remarks on knowledge-production and text-production: Newton’s optical controversy and methodological shifts
Gabor Zemplen
Inconsistency of ancient skepticism
Renata Zieminska
Symposium: A plurality of currents in today’s historical epistemologies
Organizers: Karine Chemla, Koen Vermeir
Symposium: Poincaré, Philosopher of science: A historical and philosophical approach
Organizer: Augusto J. Franco de Oliveira
Symposium: Confronting French roots and current historical epistemologies
Organizer: David Rabouin
Symposium: Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”: Interpretations and developments
Organizer: Friedrich Stadler
Symposium: Carnap’s linguistic pluralism and scientific methodology
Organizer: Richard Zach
Corroborations of hypotheses and experimental computer science in software testing
Nicola Angius
Pluralism and mathematical objects
Jacobo Asse
Aristotle's assertoric syllogistic
Hervé Barreau
Fuzzy logics as the logics of linearly decomposable resources
Libor Behounek
Plural Logicism
Francesca Boccuni
Are mathematics and logic sciences of observation? A semiotic approach to visual thinking
Jean-Marie Chevalier
Frege on "contentful mathematics"
Sorin Costreie
The computer (as a medium) in mathematics. Mathematician-computer interactions, internalization, time and space squeezing
Liesbeth De Mol
On the meaning of connectives (A propos of a non-necessitarianist challenge)
Luis Estrada-Gonzalez
Physical computability, efficiency, and the church-turing thesis
Samuel C. Fletcher, Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier
Motivating Wittgenstein's perspective on mathematical sentences as norms
Simon Friederich
Presenting pluralism in mathematics
Michele Friend
Exlog: a non-standard logic programming language for experiment-based research
Peter Gabrovsky
Frege on the iPad
Joachim Hertel
Axiomatizing set theory
Jaakko Hintikka
The duality of space and function, and category-theoretic dualities
Ralf Krömer
The Genetic Versus the Axiomatic Method: Resolving Feferman ‘77
Elaine Landry
Representing the "universe of discourse": historical origin and philosophical relevance of a graphical convention in mathematics and logic
Amirouche Moktefi
Kant, Cantor, and the Burali-Forti's paradox
Jari Palomaki
On the indispensable premises of indispensability arguments
Marco Panza, Andrea Sereni
A realist modal-structuralism
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
Computational structuralism and Frege's constraint
Paula Quinon
Remarks on recursive definitions of truth
Philippe de Rouilhan
Raise and fall of scientific branches: On progress in mathematics
Arne Seehaus, Martin Ziegler
"Muss Logik fur sich selbst sorgen?" On contrary propositions and material logical truth as problems to the neutrality of logic
Marcos Silva
Ontology without abstract objects: A naturalistic defense of revolutionary fictionalism
Min Tang
What can science tell us about mathematical objects?
Gabriel Tarziu
Kant and real numbers
Mark van Atten
Explanation and two kinds of investigation in the foundations of mathematics
Susan Vineberg
How formalized are informal proofs?
Piotr Wilkin
Constructivism and metamathematics
Jan Wolenski
Symposium: Theories of continua: Logical and philosophical reflections
Organizer: Philip Ehrlich
Symposium: Philosophy of mathematical practice
Organizer: Jose Ferreiros, Paolo Mancosu
Symposium: Are aesthetic approaches in philosophy of mathematics topical?
Organizer: Caroline Jullien
Quantification in ordinary language: From a critique of set-theoretic approaches to a proof-theoretic proposal
Michele Abrusci, Christian Retoré
The autonomy of psychology in the age of neuroscience
Kenneth Aizawa
Towards a rational theory of communication
Nimrod Bar-Am
Are radical externalism and radical internalism the same?
Krystyna Bielecka
What linguistic nativism tells us about innateness
Delphine Blitman
The role of abduction in learning and cognition
Shushan Cai, Hongguang Zhang
A naïve realist view of colour
Yannick Chin-Drian
Reassessing the rationality war
In-Rae Cho
Reflectance physicalism and contrast colours
Lieven Decock
The suppositional Ramsey test in decision making
Simone Duca
Algebras of the mind and algebras of the brain
Erwin Engeler
Blackboard system as model of problem solving in Sudoku puzzles
Dingzhou Fei
Emergent, mental causation and downward causation
Yanxia Feng
What falsifies an NCC of specific content?
Sascha Benjamin Fink
Is rational-emotive behavior theory based on the methodology of critical rationalism?
Yan Gong
The principle based explanations are not extinct in cognitive science: the case of the basic level effects
Lilia Gurova
Towards linguistically-grounded spatial logics
Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz
Steering ontological blending
Oliver Kutz, Joana Hois
Representation and action: A theory of representation in the evolution-embodied cognition context
Xiaoli Liu
Two approaches to the notion of Point of View
Manuel Liz, Margarita Vazquez
Cooperative answering and inferential erotetic logic
Pawel Lupkowski
The causal closure of the physical and the variable realization
Hernan Miguel
Computational mechanisms and models of computation
Marcin Mikowski
Damasio, self and consciousness
Gonzalo Munevar
Dual nature of consciousness
Igor Nevvazhay
Should I split or should I lump? The epistemic-tool approach to scientific concept formation
Samuli Poyhonen
'De dicto' versus 'de facto' attitudes
Manuel Rebuschi
Can innateness assumptions avoid the tautology problem?
Valentine Reynaud
The Chinese room argument and the symbol grounding problem: A new perspective
Dairon Rodriguez, Jorge Hermosillo, Bruno Lara
The concept of "object" in the visual binding theories
Bazej Skrzypulec
On levels of mechanisms
Patrice Soom
Abduction and rumormongering to the most coherent interpretation
Mariusz Urbanski, Joanna Urbanska
Dynamic logics of speech acts as formal simulations of social interaction
Tomoyuki Yamada
In defense of a multiple content structure of self-representationalism
Jerry Yang
Ecology, evolution, ethics: In search of a meta-paradigm
Donato Bergandi
Is the concept of life response-dependent?
Jonathan Birch
Adaptationism: behind criticisms and typologies, the tool
Jean-Sébastien Bolduc
A moderate solution to the debate over the species concept
Hsien-I Chiu, Bo-Chi G. Lai
Biological individuality in plants and beyond-A reconciliation for the genet-ramet dispute
Ellen Clarke
The Darwinian muddle on the ‘Division of physiological labor': An attempt of clarification
Emmanuel D'Hombres
An argument against the evolutionary contingency thesis
Andreea Esanu
Economic natural selection: What concept of selection?
Jean Gayon
Modeling/experimenting? The combinatorial strategy in synthetic biology
Tarja Knuuttila, Andrea Loettgers
Computational biophysics as a case against intertheoretic reduction
Lukasz Lamza
On informational schemes in biology
Paolo Lattanzio, Raffaele Mascella
Function as a causal role in a biological model
Maël Lemoine
The status of the hardy-weinberg law
Pablo Lorenzano
Are embryos what we thought they were, and how do we know?
Jane Maienschein
The evolution of punishment
Hisashi Nakao, Edouard Machery
Modelling development and evolution in three dimensions
Laura Nuño de la Rosa
A materialist account of scientific reasoning in Ethology
Íñigo Ongay de Felipe
The fitness landscape metaphor: Dead but not gone
Stefan Petkov
Individuation for holists: (physical) dispositions and (biological) affordances
Manuel de Pinedo García
Addressing a theory-practice gap: What can kind essentialism contribute to understanding classificatory practices in biology?
Thomas A. C. Reydon
Cellular dynamics at the beginning of prebiotic world
Walter Riofrio
Conservative reduction of biology
Christian Sachse
Essentialism, Darwinism and "theory theory"
Edit Talpsepp
Epistemological reconstruction of the concept of level. Some preliminaries and a proposal
Jon Umerez
On Rosenberg's Darwinian reductionism
Rong-Lin Wang
From substantival to functional vitalism and beyond in biomedical thought: animas, organisms and attitudes
Charles T. Wolfe
Why the classical mendelian genetics are necessary? - A comparison of Lindley Darden's mechanism approach with C. Kenneth Waters' genetic approach
Hsiao-Fan Yeh
Symposium: Evolution of biological complexity
The ontological autonomy of the chemical world: further arguments
Martín Labarca, Olimpia Lombardi
Relational philosophy as a root for an epistemology of chemistry
Jean-Pierre Llored
The paradigm changes in the study in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Alexander A. Pechenkin
Philosophy of chemistry against standard scientific realism and anti-realism
Rein Vihalemm
Special relativity prohibits spacelike causation and some implications
Thomas D. Angelidis
Spacetime as a causal set: Universe as a growing block?
Aristidis Arageorgis
The conceptual meaning of reduced states: Decoherence and interpretation
Juan Sebastián Ardenghi, Sebastian Fortin, Olimpia Lombardi
From the hole argument (A. Einstein) to the ball of clay argument (H. Weyl)
Julien Bernard
How to exchange quantum particles of the same type
Tomasz Bigaj
Fundamentality, elementariness and scales
Elena Castellani
Information measures induced by partial Boolean algebras
Graziana Conte
Many worlds, the cluster-state quantum computer, and the problem of the preferred basis
Michael Cuffaro
From independent models to a unified theory of dynamics
Naoum Daher
Explanation, explication, and interpretation of space-time theories
Robert DiSalle
Specious present in branching space-times
Juliusz Doboszewski
Testing universal gravitation in the laboratory, or the significance of research on the mean
Steffen Ducheyne
On the status of temporal unidirectionality in physics
Matt Farr
Incantations of ‘causation’ and other philosophical sins, or: Rehabilitating Ritz
Mathias Frisch
Objectivity and physical symmetries
Alexandre Guay
Bohr’s model of the atom: Methodology, consistency and fruitfulness
Pandora Hadzidaki
Mach’s principle and the philosophy of space/time: What nature is trying to tell us
Carl Hoefer
Correspondence truth and quantum mechanics
Vassilios Karakostas
Rotating universe
Montgomery Link
An illustration of the importance of the epistemological point of view and of the context in Sciences: the astronomical refraction case during the 18th century
Arnaud Mayrargue
Going round the lack of time: Enforced entrusting and silent inter-expertise trading in time-short nanomagnetism knowledge making
Sandra Mols
Circumveiloped by obscuritads
F. A. Muller
The prospects for quantum state monism
Wayne C. Myrvold
Why quantum non-locality implies parameter dependence
Paul Näger
Bell’s Lorentzian pedagogy: A bad education
Graham Nerlich
Relational logic and modern science
Argyris Nicolaidis
Einstein’s philosophy and the origins of post-critical philosophy of sciences
Emboussi Nyano
Would superluminal influences violate the principle of relativity?
Kent A. Peacock
Forces—relations or dispositions?
Johannes Roehl
Causal relevance of measurement operations in the EPR paradox
Iñaki San Pedro
Leibniz: Symmetry and harmony
Raquel Anna Sapunaru
The gravity of the past hypothesis: Lessons learnt from Earman and Wallace
Arianne Shahvisi
Problems and promises of scientific method
Leba Sleiman
Bohmian mechanics without wave function ontology
Albert Solé
Is inertia explained in general relativity?
Adán Sus
The case for quantum state realism
Morgan Tait
Proving the principle: General relativity and geodesic
Mike Tamir
A proposition called T0906 and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
Hajime Tanaka, Koji Nakatogawa, Hiroyasu Nagata
Paradoxes of transfinite cosmology
Marko Uršic
Quantum theory beyond physics
Pierre Uzan
The past of a quantum particle
Lev Vaidman
Probability is composed. The frequency interpretation of probability revisited
Louis Vervoort
How large is a structuralist universe?
Christian Wüthrich
Symposium: Epistemological perspectives on the Large Hadron Collider
Organizer: Michael Stöltzner
Vulnerability from infectious diseases and social determinants of health: In search for an ontology to guide health policy development
Chhanda Chakraborti
How to make the research agenda in the health sciences less distorted
Jan De Winter
Between variability of the body and determinism of the care: a “mediated” relation
Sébastien Janicki
When society speaks to science: Politics, social representations and industrial interests in the medical definition of the concept of addiction, in the case of tobacco and nicotine
Marc Kirsch
Ontological and moral status of human-nonhuman animal mix organisms
Renzong Qiu
How and why to epistemologically study applied bioethics to nanomedicine
Noemí Sanz Merino
Experimental philosophy and evidence based medicine: Two criticized ways of doing science
Stéphanie Van Droogenbroeck
Philosophical and ethical issues in use or abuse of human body and its parts in biomedical technologies
Xiaomei Zhai
Hybrid models, climate models and inference to the best explanation
Joel Katzav
Let the water flow to the city: A recent history of the water saving technologies for agriculture in China
Rodolfo Hernandez Perez
Climate science or climate fiction? The role of fictional elements in physics and in Earth sciences
Michael Poznic, Rafaela Hillerbrand
A new way of thinking in environmental sciences
Constantin Stoenescu
Two conflicting ideas upon the nature and the goals of man’s action upon social phenomena
Michel Bourdeau
Weber’s and Pareto’s theories as methodological programs
Romulus Brâncoveanu
What is social construction?
Esa Diaz-Leon
Guilbaud’s reading of Arrow’s theorem
Daniel Eckert
On the conceptual clarification of “human environment”, “action space” and “quality of life”
Silvia Haring, Paul Weingartner
Which theory of explanation for the social sciences: Unificationist, mechanistic or manipulationist?
Chrysostomos Mantzavinos
Modeling expertise in economics
Carlo Martini
Two approaches to representative voting
Adrian Miroiu
Reconsidering values in assessing the progress of historiography of psychology
Ana María Talak
Are there laws in the social sciences?
Wei Wang
Decisions without sharp probabilities
Paul Weirich
Symposium: Duality within human sciences
Organizer: Antonella Corradini, Nicolò Gaj, Giuseppe Lo Dico
Symposium: Business ethics and analytic philosophy
Organizer: Christoph Lütge
Symposium: Decision theory in economics: Between logic and psychology
Organizer: Samuel Ferey
Production of intermediary objects in a collaborative network: Examples of impact on tools and methods in engineering innovation
Yamina Bettahar, Benoît Roussel
An inquiry into the character of material artifacts
Manjari Chakrabarty
Technical malfunction in terms of states and events
Luca Del Frate
Science, technology and society. An attempt to think their link through Maurice Blondel’s (1861-1949) philosophy of action
Nicolas Delhopital
Technoscience: Illuminating new blue skies
Christopher Evans
Formal ontologies and semantic technologies: A “dual process” proposal or concept representation
Marcello Frixione, Antonio Lieto
Artefacts and family resemblance
Pawel Garbacz
What is so special with technological science?
Sven Ove Hansson
How to recycle Asimov’s laws in roboethics: An intermediate suggestion
Insok Ko
Nominalism of things and nominalism of events, from Turing Machines to functional programming
Baptiste Mélès
Geometric configuration in nature and in design: Is there a connection?
Susan G. Sterrett, Adrian Bejan
Models, commentaries, and theories
Margarita Vázquez, Manuel Liz
Comparing methodologies of classical, natural, field and computer experiments deployed in climate change studies
Martin A. Vezér
Symposium: Design as a challenge for the philosophy of science
Organizers: Maarten Franssen, Sjoerd D. Zwart
Symposium: Artefact Functions
Organizer: Wybo Houkes